Rob Picheta, CNN • Published 13th January 2019 The world's largest aircraft has been retired after six test flights, as its developers prepare to build a new, commercial model to take to the skies in the early 2020s.
The prototype Airlander 10, a hybrid helium airship built by Hybrid Air Vehicles, based in Bedfordshire in central England, measures 300 feet in length
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Last week, the latest in a long string of Facebook privacy scandals came to light: According to a report in The New York Times, the company skirted its own privacy rules to give more than 150 companies, including Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify, special privileges to its users' data. This came days after disclosure of a bug exposing up to 6.8 million
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Alfonso Ribeiro is suing Fortnite's creators Epic Games, accusing them of copying his character's dance moves. Ribeiro is also suing NBA 2K series creators Take-Two Interactive for using the "Carlton Dance".
The actor claims the companies unfairly profited from his "creative expression, likeness and celebrity".
The dance
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The methods Facebook uses to thwart ad-blocking technology have been criticised by web developers. The social network injects dozens of lines of code in every page to make it harder for ad blockers to detect and hide sponsored posts.
But that makes the website less efficient and stops software such as screen readers used by visually impaired users from working
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I enjoyed the game for the most part. It’s a fun and relatively mindless way to pass the time. However, the developers are pulling a very deceitful scam that I have reported to Apple, and I suggest anyone playing the game do the same. Let me explain. When you spend money to NOT have ads interrupting gameplay constantly, that should mean NO ADS! Be aware
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(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said in a filing late Thursday it had made $1.3 billion in cash payments in connection to its acquisition of coding hosting startup GitHub. Microsoft acquired the company, which developers use to keep track of software code changes as they write applications, in June, in a $7.5 billion deal that was described at the time as an all-stock
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google unit said on Friday that its Washington office chief, who also heads Americas policy, is stepping down as the company faces criticism on issues including how it protects users’ privacy and its investment plans in China. Susan Molinari, a former Republican member of Congress who has run Google’s Washington
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Less expensive versions of world’s biggest-selling drug go on sale in Europe, but AbbVie extends its shelf life in U.S. with a ‘patent thicket’ Cheaper copies of the world’s biggest-selling drug will roll out across Europe this week after a key European patent for Humira expires Tuesday, but U.S. patients and insurers will have to wait to access less-expensive
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SendGrid would continue to run as an independent unit led by Chief Executive Sameer Dholakia and his management team Twilio Inc. is buying SendGrid Inc. in a roughly $2 billion all-stock deal that would add email delivery to Twilio’s offerings.
The deal, expected to close in the first half of 2019, would combine two companies with a similar vision and business
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